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37Director: William K. Howard
Executive Producer: Alexander Korda
Produced: Erich Pommer
American Distributor: United Artists
In 1558, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. The men in Queen Elizabeth's court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age and how to foil those pesky Spanish who got far too much influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. After a plot to depose her is discovered, she enlists Michael Ingolby, whose father was killed by the Inquisition, to go undercover and infiltrate the court of Philip of Spain. Elizabeth thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things. Michael is mostly thinking about one of Elizabeth's ladies in waiting, Cynthia. Soon his mind is on survival when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain. Masquerading as one of the traitors, Ingolby finds the names of British subjects in Spanish pay. He identifies the would-be assassins and discovers their plans to send the Armada against England. His feats earn Ingolby the love of a Spanish noblewoman, an English courtesan, and Queen Elizabeth herself as he takes the British fleet into battle. At the climax he leads a night attack on the Armada ships massed off the coast of England.
Cast List:
Vivien Leigh | ... | Cynthia |
Laurence Olivier | ... | Michael Ingolby |
Flora Robson | ... | Queen Elizabeth |
Leslie Banks | ... | Earl of Leicester |
Raymond Massey | ... | Phillip of Spain |
James Mason | ... | Hillary Vane |
Robert Newton | ... | Don Pedro |
Herbet Lomas | ... | Sir Richard Ingolby |
Morton Selten | ... | Lord Burleigh |
Tamara Desni | ... | Elena |
Robert Rendell | ... | Don Miguel |
Charles Carson | ... | Admiral Valdez |
Henry Oscar | ... | Spanish Ambassador |
Lawrence Hanray | ... | French Ambassador |
Roy Russell | ... | Cooper |
Howard Douglas | ... | Lord Amberley |
Cecil Mainwaring | ... | Illingworth |
Francis DeWolfe | ... | Tarleton |
Graham Cheswright | ... | Maddison |
George Thirlwell | ... | Gregory |
A. Corney Grain | ... | Christopher Hatton |
Donald Calthrop | ... | Don Escobal |
Lyn Harding | ... | Sir Richard |
James Mason | ... | Hillary Vane |
Roy Russell | ... | Sir Humphrey Cooper |
Norma Varden | ... | Elena's Governess |